Historical love-affairs

The least studied of the surviving ancient Greek romance novels, The Tale of Gabrokom and Anti by Xenophon of Ephesus, is a deliberate allegory intended for ...

The action takes place at the beginning of the 18th century, in Seville. The narrative style is close to the book "Punishment by Wedding" and at the same tim...

Kit Newbury, a rich and spoiled girl, invites her friend Terina, the daughter of a poor vicar. In a friend’s house, where everything is on a grand scale, cha...

In the originality of staging his own death, no one can compare with Sherlock Holmes, who, after his imaginary death at the Reichenbach Falls, wandered the w...

When the revolution covered the St. Petersburg sun with a scarlet sign, they realized that their world was destroyed. What to do when the past turns to dust?...

Author's Note: Although this may seem like a product of my sick imagination, the incident that inspired me to write this story is very real. On October 3, 19...

Great seductresses - the Marquise de Pompadour, Countess von Platen, Lady Hamilton... The power of these brilliant women over the most powerful European mona...

Did Army Major Ivan Tauberg, who was known among his friends as a model of equanimity and integrity, think that Fate would decide to play a trick on him, and...

Ralph Montgomery didn't know what to say. Even on her deathbed, his grandmother tried to impose her wishes on everyone - from the cook to the city council me...

Determined to end poverty, beautiful young Arilla and her cousin Harry start a dangerous game: the girl poses as a rich widow in the hope of marrying a wealt...

Young Latonia was forced to impersonate her friend and go instead to India, to her uncle-guardian. The girl sincerely considered the plan to be a completely ...